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ephemera
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Ephemera
(gcide) | May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the
goddess Maia (Gr. Mai^a), daughter of Atlas and mother of
Mercury by Jupiter.]
1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
--Chaucer.
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2. The early part or springtime of life.
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His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.
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3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from
their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
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The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.
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Plumes that mocked the may. --Tennyson.
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4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson.
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Italian may (Bot.), a shrubby species of Spiraea
(Spiraea hypericifolia) with many clusters of small
white flowers along the slender branches.
May apple (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant
(Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself
(popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves,
and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The
root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
May beetle, May bug (Zool.), any one of numerous species
of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged
state in May. They belong to Melolontha, and allied
genera. Called also June beetle.
May Day, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic
parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a
garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
May dew, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which
magical properties were attributed.
May flower (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its
blossom. See Mayflower, in the vocabulary.
May fly (Zool.), any species of Ephemera, and allied
genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many
species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under
Ephemeral.
May game, any May-day sport.
May lady, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.
May lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria
majalis}).
May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary.
May queen, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the
sports of May Day.
May thorn, the hawthorn.
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Ephemera
(gcide) | Ephemera \E*phem"e*ra\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a day fly, fr. ?
daily, lasting but a day; ? over + ? day.]
1. (Med.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
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2. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or
ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
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Ephemera
(gcide) | Ephemeron \E*phem"e*ron\, n.; pl. Ephemera. [NL. See
Ephemera.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of the ephemeral flies.
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ephemera
(wn) | ephemera
n 1: something transitory; lasting a day |
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ephemera
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ephemeral
(encz) | ephemeral,jepičí adj: Michal Ambrožephemeral,pomíjivý adj: Zdeněk Brožephemeral,prchavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ephemerality
(encz) | ephemerality,pomíjivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
ephemeralness
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Ephemeral
(gcide) | Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a.
1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer
than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
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2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
"Ephemeral popularity." --V. Knox.
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Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal,
efficacy. --Sir J.
Stephen.
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Ephemeral fly (Zo["o]l.), one of a group of neuropterous
insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied
genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a
short time. The larv[ae] are aquatic; -- called also {day
fly} and May fly.
[1913 Webster]Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, n.
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral
plant, insect, etc.
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Ephemeral fly
(gcide) | Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a.
1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer
than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
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2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
"Ephemeral popularity." --V. Knox.
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Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal,
efficacy. --Sir J.
Stephen.
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Ephemeral fly (Zo["o]l.), one of a group of neuropterous
insects, belonging to the genus Ephemera and many allied
genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a
short time. The larv[ae] are aquatic; -- called also {day
fly} and May fly.
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Ephemeran
(gcide) | Ephemeran \E*phem"er*an\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
One of the ephemeral flies.
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Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis
(gcide) | Basket \Bas"ket\, n. [Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words
seem to be from the English.]
1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes,
splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude
baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." --Dyer.
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2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains;
as, a basket of peaches.
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3. (Arch.) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
[Improperly so used.] --Gwilt.
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4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a
stagecoach. [Eng.] --Goldsmith.
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5. A container shaped like a basket[1], even if made of solid
material rather than woven; -- the top is often, but not
always, open and without a lid.
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6. a vessel suspended below a balloon, designed to carry
people or measuring instruments for scientific research.
Note: The earliest balloons designed to carry people often
had small vessels of woven flexible vegetable materials
to hold the passengers, which resembled large
baskets[1], from which the name was derived.
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7. (Basketball) A goal[3] consisting of a short cylindrical
net suspended from a circular rim, which itself is
attached at about ten feet above floor level to a
backboard, placed at the end of a basketball court. In
professional basketball, two such baskets are used, one at
each end of the court, and each team may score only by
passing the ball though its own basket. In informal games,
only one such basket is often used.
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8. (Basketball) An instance of scoring points by throwing the
basketball through the basket; as, he threw four baskets
in the first quarter; -- the ball must pass through the
basket from above in order to score points.
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Basket fish (Zool.), an ophiuran of the genus
Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See
Astrophyton.
Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork
to protect the hand. --Hudibras. Hence,
Basket-hilted, a.
Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs.
Basket worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus
Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. {Thyridopteryx
ephemer[ae]formis}. The larva makes and carries about a
bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it
afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult
females.
collection basket, a small basket[1] mounted on the end of
a pole, used in churches to collect donations from those
attending a church service; -- the long pole allows the
collector to hold the basket in front of those at the end
of the pew, while the collector remains in the aisle.
waste basket, a basket[4] used to hold waste matter, such
as discarded paper, commonly shaped like a truncated cone,
with the wide end open and at the top. Vessels of other
shapes, such as oblong containers, are also called waste
baskets.
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ephemera
(wn) | ephemera
n 1: something transitory; lasting a day |
ephemeral
(wn) | ephemeral
adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of
childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient
beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal";
"fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing,
short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]
n 1: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a
day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral] |
ephemerality
(wn) | ephemerality
n 1: the property of lasting for a very short time [syn:
ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness] |
ephemeralness
(wn) | ephemeralness
n 1: the property of lasting for a very short time [syn:
ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness] |
ephemeral port
(foldoc) | ephemeral port
A TCP or UDP port number that is
automatically allocated from a predefined range by the {TCP/IP
stack} software, typically to provide the port for the client
end of a client-server communication.
BSD used ports 1024 through 4999 as ephemeral ports, though
it is often desirable to increase this allocation.
(http://ncftpd.com/ncftpd/doc/misc/ephemeral_ports.html).
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